Saturday, July 31, 2010

That'll Teach Them

The Righteous State has responded to Daveybloke's recent characterisation of Gaza as a prison camp as the Righteous State responds to most things nowadays, namely with violence. Daveybloke's response to the response has not been reported, but it is unlikely that he will object; we all know how the Conservatives believe prisoners should be treated, unless they happen to be of the Jeffrey Archer, Ernest Saunders or Conrad Black variety. Britain's leading liberal newspaper has the poignant pictorial caption "A man carries a wounded young Palestinian to al-Shifa hospital after Israeli air strikes in Gaza City". The picture appears to show a man carrying a wounded child, so it's a jolly good thing the caption was put there to keep the image free of excessive emotivity.